To: HairOfTheDog
“It might be wrong, it might be absolutely abhorrent to people, but murder is a legal term... the legal definition applies.”
How about we call it homicide? Which, IIRC, it is.
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06/04/2007 4:48:48 PM PDT by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: Old Student
Homicide is ~more~ correct than murder is.
To: Old Student
Murder is a legal term and indicates a life taken willfully. Abortion is legal and therefore cannot be murder legally.
It's fine to say that it should be considered murder and pass laws to prosecute and end the practice. But it's not murder yet.
I'm not certain we win ultimately by tossing around those terms in public. I think we need to win people to an affirmative position, a regard for human life from conception to death.
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